Pinnacle update [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Benj

I agree with your comment that it is
amazing what can change in a week.  I have been to Aranda bushland
twice over spring and the changes in native flowering plants has been stunning.
 I also agree that a vast majority of people don't seem to be interested
in this natural wonder whilst at the same time the man-made Floriade flower
festival attracted many thousands of people.  Each to their own and
crowds of that number would probably destroy the dry forest at Aranda anyway.
 This is slightly off subject for this chat line so I'll mention an
incidental observation from Aranda that was a first for me; a Grey Currawong
with dependent young.

Matthew Frawley

"Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>

18/10/2007 08:48 PM

To	"John Brannan" <>,
cc	"Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>
Subject	[canberrabirds] Pinnacle update [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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Hi John/Barbara
I also went to the Pinnacle recently, but
on Monday 8th, a week after my last report. 
So much had changed. Thankfully, I found
the leaden flycatcher male (didnt see a female), a sacred kingfisher, a
'pair' of rufous whistlers (my first for this site this season). They werent
really a 'pair' because the male, who looked young, was singing his heart
out 1m away from this female and she kept bashing him up. 2 golden whistlers.
A female red cap robin this time, hopefully it finds the male (which a
week before was seen 20m from this spot) and we get baby red capped robins!
Speckled warblers carrying food, buff rumps
with dy, about 20 dusky woodswallows hawking insects inside the forest.
Kookaburras. Rainbow lorikeet sitting silently in the big applebox (nesting??)
 A single sitella again. Noisy friarbirds. White throated gerygone.
4 choughs. Grey currawong. Little eagle hawking the duskys.
+
Also 27 small purple peas (Swainsona sericea),
a threatened species (NSW) were suddenly in flower. Many Daphne heaths
flowering now. But most other species have finished inside the nature park.
Having said that, along the main 'backtrack' purple hardenbergia, hoveas,
and glycine, and a few indigofera, egg and bacon peas (Daviesia and Pultenea),
white Daphnes, and yellow urn heaths are flowering, and 99% of people walk
past and dont notice. (Excuse the spelling, my books are at home)
Amazing what can change in a week.

Benj
 

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